Using Angular4 as server side render engine

I have a very big system today written in Nodejs, express, mongoose and pug.

I wish to transfer the system to use Angular4 instead of pug so I can enjoy the possibilities to render my views on both front and back ends. As well as having a robust components system and all the other abilities of Angular4.

As a first step I wish to only replace pug with Angular4. I have read few articles and tutorials showing how to render Angular4 on the server side. I wish to know how can I currently make the replacement and just keep all the BL in the nodejs layer and pass the final view model to angular for it to render.

Would love to know if there is an "easy" way doing that, thanks, Matan

via Matan Kadosh